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...desire. By following the Way of Buddha, a man can eliminate desire and win ultimate knowledge. Depending on his works, a man may be reincarnated as a prince or a panda. Therefore, all life is sacred. A true Buddhist should not kill a fly or step on an insect because-literally-it may be somebody's grandmother...
...magnetism almost steals the show; but there is competition. Marguerite Tarrant's witch also draws attention for a beauty of speech and splendor of costume. She is fascinating in her fear of death, and radiant in the night when "Nothing is what it seems to be." Despite the "insect life" surrounding them, the young love, and do so with conviction...
...generally been considered a lethal dose for man (see MEDICINE). But a mature kissing bug, Dr. Baldwin finds, can survive 50,000 roentgens. When he bombarded small spots on young kissing bugs with 2,000,000-volt X rays, he found the cells apparently unaffected. But when the insect ate, setting off the mechanism of cell division and molting, the latent damage appeared. The irradiated spots developed blisters and degenerated...
...cell division, and when it molted, the bug showed two to three times less radiation damage than bugs that were irradiated in normal air. Dr. Baldwin concluded that oxygen deficiency improved radiation resistance. Since cells in humans are continually dividing, man may never hope to achieve an insect's resistance. But Dr. Baldwin is hopeful that the study of his kissing bugs will lead to basic knowledge of how radiation damages cells and what can be done to reduce such damage to a minimum...
...calm, glassy pond. Small objects drift across it easily, propelled by feeble forces. Scattered at wide intervals over the mirror surfaces are deep, sucking whirlpools. If a floating leaf drifts close to one of them, it plunges down to the bottom. A self-powered object, say a water insect, that gets sucked into a whirlpool has a terrible time battling back to the surface...